Two powerful Atlantic storms are threatening the East Coast with dangerous surf conditions this week, according to the National Hurricane Center. Category 4 Hurricane Humberto is swirling over the central Atlantic and hammering the beaches of the northern Caribbean, Bahamas, and Bermuda with high surf and life-threatening rip currents, the NHC reported early Monday morning. […]
Something Huge and Brown Is Taking Over the Atlantic Ocean
Since 2011, a monstrous structure has taken shape in the Atlantic Ocean almost every year, sprawling from the West African coast to the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt—a gargantuan bloom of a brown free-floating seaweed. In May, the seaweed belt hit a record biomass of 37.5 million tons. In a study […]
You Don’t Want to Know Where Scientists Just Found 27 Million Tons of Plastic
Despite the hundreds of millions of metric tons of plastic floating in our oceans—not to mention the microplastics in our saliva, blood, breast milk, and semen—researchers have been unable to account for all the plastic ever produced. A new study has just tracked down a large portion of it. Researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for […]
3D Scan of Titanic Wreck Uncovers Heroic Sacrifices During Ship’s Final Moments
In 2022, the deep-sea mapping company Magellan deployed two remotely operated vehicles 12,500 feet (3,800 meters) beneath the Atlantic Ocean to capture around 715,000 photos of the Titanic. As Gizmodo previously reported, experts compiled the photos into a highly precise digital twin of the wreck, which continues to reveal heartbreaking details of the tragedy that […]